To sum up the Eurovision 2024 season, the EBU released the numbers behind the biggest music show in the world.
Overall, it seems this year’s contest was quite popular and reached a lot of people across different media channels and digital platforms.
Statistics show that Eurovision 2024 engaged more people, compared to the previous edition.
- Around 163 million people watched at least one of the shows via public media services, (162 million in 2023, and 161 million in 2022). 42 million views came through YouTube
- A record share of youth viewers! The viewing share among 15-24 years old, was around 58.6%.
- The TikTok hashtag #Eurovision2024 reached 6.5 billion views (1.7 billion more than in 2023)
- TikTok related content reached more than 500 million accounts.
- As for Sunday the 12th of May, the Eurovision 2024 Spotify playlist is the leading one globally.
- View share of the Grand Final was 46.7% – the highest share since 2006. almost 3 times more than the average viewing share in general.
- People from 156 different countries voted this year (12 countries more than 2023)
- The countries that cast the majority of votes out of the Rest of The World are: USA, Canada, Romania, Mexico, UAE, Türkiye, South Africa, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria
Participating Counties Viewship
- Germany: 8.1 million viewers (the highest)
- UK: 7.7 million viewers (the second highest)
- France: 5.4 million viewers
- Iceland achieved the highest viewing share in (96%), followed by: Sweden (87.3%), Norway (85.5%), Finland (83.1%), Croatia (73.2%) and Lithuania (70.2%).
- Croatia demonstrated their highest view share since 2006.
- Greece achieved the highest number of viewers since 2011, with around 2.8 people watching the contest.
- 650K people watched the contest in Ireland: The biggest audience since 2013.
- 252K people watched the contest in Latvia: The biggest audience since 2007.
- Around 723K people watched the contest from Switzerland – 40% more than in 2023.